Fat Joe blesses the streets with his 8th album. I wouldn’t really say that Joe has been running the streets since 1993 when his first album dropped, Represent, but Fat Joes has most certainly put in his work. This album is very impressive compared to Joe’s other albums. I can tell he put quite a bit of effort in with the production of his beats. He’s got quite a few people on this abum which will get him some club spins. I’m talking Plies, Lil Wayne, KRS-One, Sizz Beats, The Alchemist, J. Holiday…..
He seems to have found out a formula that’ll work for the Elephant in the room.
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Track by track, Fat Joe opens up the album with his song ‘The Fugitive’, where he definitely takes stabs at people who say that he can’t use the word ‘Nigga’. We all know that Joe Cartagena is not African American, but he wants us to know he can use the word. He goes a little crazy on the track reciting it a few times in a row. I can respect that. Joe is pretty hood. He has most certainly earned his beatings to be able to use this word.
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We have all heard ‘Ain’t Saying Nothin’ already. if you haven’t, I guess you haven’t been in a club for a while. The track is hot, the beat is hard. Not much content other than bragging. ‘
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‘The Crackhouse’ is his second famous song of 2008 featuring Lil Wayne. All the buzz is about Lil Wayne lately, and the beat and rhymes make this track a perfect duo. It’s all about the crack, the crack house, and guess what. They’re all in the crack house!!!
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Don’t get it twisted. ‘Cocababy’ is probably one of my most favorite mixed tracks on the album. I love the beat. I am not too crazy about the rhymes. He’s got some ill Japanese Taiko kinda drum feeling on the track with a winding buzz sound going on throughout the song that is very, very dope. It’s all about Cocababy. He’s essentially idolizing himself in this track.
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‘Get It for Life’ is one of the WORST tracks on the album. He’s got that annoying guy DJ Khaled screaming on the track about how they’re the best. Not too much content, not a club banger, not one a frequent flyer in the ride either… Who is this DJ Khaled guy and who is he shouting "We The Best" for? We don’t know this guy. What’s his chip game like?
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Swizz Beats gets real greasy on ‘Drop’. The beat is amazing, its definitely a club banger, and I can already hear the asses dropping at X-Bar.
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‘I Won’t Tell’ is the ladies track. He’s got J. Holiday on this record singing for the ladies. This is the club banger that you take you lady on the floor and two step with it.
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I was born and raised in the Ghetto. ‘K.A.R.’ This is crack music. That intro is hard body, the bass just rocks. I call this shotgun grip music. It has the feeling like you just wanna body a nigga. Killer’s, guns, holdin it down, testosterone… The song sole purpose is chilling with your boys, blunt in hand, slow stuntin’ down the block with the mean ice grill.
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’300 Brolic’ has amazing potential. The warrior like beat with the mild cadence drum roll in the background makes your hair stand up and makes you want to grip a nigga. Unfortunately the wanna be symphonic hook just ruins the track. "We want war. We love war. We need war. We love war" Who’s choice was it to get these soft opera singers on the track. I am completely disappointed with the track. You cannot have an ice grill with this track bumping in your ride. I’m sorry Joe, you fucked this track up.
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‘Preacher on a Sunday Morning’ seems like a track Fat Joe did to dedicate to someone he likes, but that person is not too soft. Definitely not a track he’d dedicate to his mother, but maybe something he’d spin for a teenage cousin who looks up to Cartagena. I go the feeling when listening to the track. The track is hot. Scott Storch did his work on this beat. The song does seem out of place on the album, but either way, I still like it. He still gets about how he puts his work in, but it is not nearly as hostile as the other tracks. More of less a "I should respect Fat Joe cause he is a real dude" kinda song. It’s like he wants us to think of him like a godfather. Is he reaching?
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‘My Conscience’ is by far THE MOST OFFICIAL record on this whole album. Joe, I give you so many props for linking up with KRS-One on this album. You come hard on the track, KRS-One speaks the street to us. You guys talk about how you’ve matured, kept it real, got out of the blocks, how the public reacts to you guys, what you’d rather be doing if the public didn’t look at you how they did, where you would be… This is a song where the actual song is very relational to the title of the song. This is rap Joe. This is rap! I love it how they go back at each other at the end over who the best is. I love it!
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‘That White’ is all about the white drugs. Coke, crack. C’mon, don’t act like you guys don’t know what Joe is about. The beat on this album is second to known. It’s definitely a DJ Premier beat. I can hear it and it makes me think of Gangstarr. We get measurements of this track, and just how Fat Joe does his work with the drugs. Tahnks got for that white, Joe is where he is.
